Can you please share the evidence for the belief in the resurrection of Christ?

home title Posted by Sumair Mirza on Apr 23rd, 2011 | no comments home title
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Question:

Can you please share the evidence for the belief in the resurrection of Christ?

Answer:

To answer this question one must systematically review the events of the resurrection and the claims made against it. Although this is something I plan to do in a thorough fashion in a future post, at this time I will seek to address this question with some preliminary structure that can set the stage for assurance in this historical event.
Firstly, we must begin with the Word of God spoken through Paul to understand the significance of this topic (1 Corinthians 15:3-4, 12-20):
“For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures”
“But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead. But he did not raise him if in fact the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. And if Christ has …
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Did Jesus Die on the Cross? Ahmadiyaa Muslims say “No! He just fainted.”

home title Posted by Sumair Mirza on Jan 13th, 2010 | 10 comments home title
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Founded in 1889, the Ahmadiyaa Movement is predominately Islamic in its beliefs with some variation. The mainstream Islamic community view the Ahmadiyaa as a breakaway sect and do not acknowledge it as a principle denomination such as sunni, shi’a, or sufism (To learn more about Islam please view my post “Islam and Christianity   —   Estranged siblings or polarized worldviews?”).

The Ahmadis agree with the majority of the six articles of faith in Islam however a significant variation comes in the adoption of its founder as a continuity of the prophet line. They directly contradict Islam’s traditional view of Muhammad as the final prophet by stating he was only the final law-giving prophet. The Ahmadis present their founder, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, as being a true prophet that several main religious prophecies foretold (Christianity, Islam, Buddhism). Oddly enough Mirza Ghulam Ahmad presents himself as the figurative summation of all major prophets which of course has resulted in negative responses by various Muslim governments around the world and disagreements with other worldviews as to the incorrect interpretation of their texts.

With this preliminary introduction to the Ahmadiyaa movement, I introduce the main focus of this post and that is to address a view commonly shared with main stream Islam that Jesus did not die on the cross. Mainstream Islam principally presents the Substitution Theory (claim: someone other than Jesus died on the cross) based on aya (verse) 4:157 in the Qur’an whereas the Ahmadiyya movement (and some mainstream Muslims) state that Jesus simply swooned (passed out) on the cross. They …

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